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HIKING · BIKING · TRAVEL, PLANNED ON PURPOSE
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A Finished Story
Everyone knows Italy made the first ascent of K2 in 1954. Nobody leads with the night before, when two men were left outside at 8,100 meters and one of them was later accused of stealing the very oxygen he had carried up the mountain.
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THE LATEST
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Painted Canyon and Ladder Canyon: Field Brief
Clay’s Lowdown The ladders are the hook, not the catch. BLM says there are no designated trails and little to no cell…
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A 100% Grade Is Not a Cliff
A 100% grade is a 45 degree slope. Percent grade compares how far you climb to how far you travel horizontally. It…
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Golden Canyon and Gower Gulch: Field Brief
Clay’s Lowdown 📍 Overview Golden Canyon and Gower Gulch make about a four mile loop through the badlands of Death Valley National…
THE OUTPOST
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A Finished Story
Everyone knows Italy made the first ascent of K2 in 1954. Nobody leads with the night before, when two men were left outside at 8,100 meters and one of them…
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The Name on the Bottom of the Boot
Six climbers died in an Alpine storm in 1935. One survivor spent the next two years arguing with a shoe, and the bottom of your boot has carried his answer…
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The Lake That Paid
A plane went down in Yosemite’s backcountry in 1976, carrying two dead men and three tons of marijuana. Nobody found it for six weeks. What happened after became one of…
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Four Eyes Is Going to Treat
The bar smelled like spilled rye and wet wool. A wood stove pushed heat into the corners of Nolan’s Hotel, Mingusville, Montana Territory. Outside, November pressed down hard on the…
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The River That Ate Men Whole
The Little Missouri in March 1886 did not look like a river. It looked like a wound. Snowmelt and broken ice came screaming down from the Badlands uplands, carrying cottonwood…